The White/Brown Ajah Winter Olympic Carnival: Olympic History

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hahahah.

 

Ha.

 

Solidarity sisters.

[Ryrin]

I can't even imagine walking fast without a bra.

I can't even imagine walking fast without a bra.

I can.

[Charis alAslan]

 

 

 

did they have nude or even clothed women in classical Olympics?

 

would they have?

 

 

to the rest of that, thats obviusly a rhetorical question becuse you know as wel as i thhey didnt have women in the originall olympics so fairly pointless

 

 

 

Actually, there is record of ONE woman who competed and won something in the 264BC Olympics. You can read about her here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilistiche

Don't know if she was nude, though. That would've been... very scandalous, I think!

 

I don't think that many of the team sports, either summer or winter, would work very well nude. Ice hockey nude sounds incredibly dangerous.

 

Indeed!

 

Bold: Not really the women in Sparta always competed in the nude between themselves. Wonderful physiques. They trained when they could. More freedom than women in all the other city states.

 

 

Good point. I was thinking that Bilitiche competed against the MEN. =P It's actually not clear. Can anyone find that out?

[Charis alAslan]

Fun Facts for this week --

• The Russians were the first to have a MASCOT at their Olympic Games in 1980. 

 

• The most notable sport in the Winter Games is FIGURE SKATING. See this article: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/2014-sochi-olympics-historical-look-olympic-figure-skating-203600304.html

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Not surprised in the slightest, figure skating is the best part of the Winter Olympics....and I loooove the Winter Olympics 

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

what's the mascot?

[Charis alAslan]

A Leopard, polar bear and hare were chosen mascots of the 2014 Winter Olympics

 

 

 

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yeah, not really a fan of mascots for the Olympics in general.

 

But I suppose these ones are way cuter than the ones for London Summer Olympics 

[Basel Gill]

The worst one was Whatizit, or Izzy for short, in the Atlanta games.

 

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

I like the snow leopard

[Charis alAslan]

The worst one was Whatizit, or Izzy for short, in the Atlanta games.

 

 

Yea, that's pretty bad. 

 

My favorite are the mascots from the Beijing Olympics: (yes, I'm biased - I'm a Chinese teacher, =P )

(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuwa)

The Fuwa (Chinese: 福娃; pinyin: Fúwá; literally "good-luck dolls", also known as "Friendlies"), were the mascots of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The designs were created by Han Meilin, a famous Chinese artist.^[1] The designs were publicly announced by the National Society of Chinese Classic Literature Studies on 11 November 2005 at an event marking the 1000th day before the opening of the games.

There are five fuwa: Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, and Nini. Together, the names form the sentence "北京欢迎你", or "Beijing huanying ni," which means "Beijing welcomes you". 

Amazing thought went into designing them. Take a look at this chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuwa#Mascots

[Rhea]

I think my favorites were Haakon and Kristin from the Lillehammer 1994 Winter Olympics. As far as I know ( I could be wrong) these are the only "human" mascots they've ever had for the Olympics.

 

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

 

The worst one was Whatizit, or Izzy for short, in the Atlanta games.

 

 

 

Yea, that's pretty bad. 

 

My favorite are the mascots from the Beijing Olympics: (yes, I'm biased - I'm a Chinese teacher, =P )

(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuwa)

The Fuwa (Chinese: 福娃; pinyin: Fúwá; literally "good-luck dolls", also known as "Friendlies"), were the mascots of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The designs were created by Han Meilin, a famous Chinese artist.^[1] The designs were publicly announced by the National Society of Chinese Classic Literature Studies on 11 November 2005 at an event marking the 1000th day before the opening of the games.

There are five fuwa: Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, and Nini. Together, the names form the sentence "北京欢迎你", or "Beijing huanying ni," which means "Beijing welcomes you". 

Amazing thought went into designing them. Take a look at this chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuwa#Mascots

those are amazing... talk about attention to details. and so cute.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

I think my favorites were Haakon and Kristin from the Lillehammer 1994 Winter Olympics. As far as I know ( I could be wrong) these are the only "human" mascots they've ever had for the Olympics.

 

and these... I want.

 

they're almost cabbage patch kids.

 

never had one of those.

[Basel Gill]

I'd forgotten about the little human mascot kids! I liked them.

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Those wee humans are adorable!

 

And Cindy is right, they look exactly like cabbage patch kids, I loved them as a child 

[Rekinu Alasayaar]

>.> Little thought on cabbage patch kids... I was 9 weeks premature when I was born, (back in 86) and when the doctors oked me to go home, my sisters quickly realized that i fit IN their cabbage patch doll clothes... I think they didn't stop thinking of me as a squawking doll till i was 6 years old...

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>.> Little thought on cabbage patch kids... I was 9 weeks premature when I was born, (back in 86) and when the doctors oked me to go home, my sisters quickly realized that i fit IN their cabbage patch doll clothes... I think they didn't stop thinking of me as a squawking doll till i was 6 years old...

That's one of the most adorable things I've ever heard.

[Rekinu Alasayaar]

It gets better, when I was old enough, and wanted to play with them, they would play house.  I would be a dad, and they had me sit outside the door for hours pretending to be "at work" while they played house... I would stay there and keep asking if I could come home from work yet, to that their reply was, "not till after we have tea".

[Rekinu Alasayaar]

I quickly bored of it, and picked up reading instead, lol.